Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake may have been dominating the headlines of late, but there is another Jamaican sprinter going for gold at London 2012.

Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell is fit and raring to go after recovering from a niggling groin injury that kept him out of last year's World Championships in Daegu - and has dogged him ever since.

At least that is the assessment of his coach, Stephen Francis, who spoke to reporters after a training session at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday morning.

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'He has trained very well for the last three to four days at full effort, so I expect he’d be in an even better condition in another week,' Francis told The Gleaner.

'He looks like he has recovered, so far, from the groin problems,' he added. 'It doesn’t seem as if he is any worse for the wear.

'He appears to be in good nick, but we won’t know until the second day.'

Powell, who is due to run in round one of the 100m next Friday, first broke the world record in 2005 with a time of 9.77 seconds, before setting a new record of 9.74 in 2007.

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However the 29-year-old is yet to win an Olympic medal, having finished fifth at both Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

But Francis believes all that can change this summer.

'If he can consistently run how he is supposed to run, then anything is possible. If he does not allow the occasion to force him to do what he is not trained to do, then he will be alright,' Francis said.

'The problem is that sometimes when the occasion comes around, he does things that he is not trained to do, and we are trying to see if we can get past that.'